Pentagon Releases First Batch of 162 Declassified UAP Documents and Videos

President Trump directed the release in February 2026, posting on Truth Social that agency heads should begin identifying and releasing relevant UFO files and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters.

The disclosure occurred two days after Trump predicted some of it is going to be very interesting to people. The Pentagon posted on X that while past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public who can make up their own minds about the information contained in these files.

The newly unveiled website has a retro feel, featuring black-and-white military imagery of flying objects and statements displayed in typewriter-like font.

Of the initial release, 120 are PDFs, 28 are videos and 14 are images, with 108 of the 162 files containing redactions to protect eyewitness identities, government facility locations or unrelated military site details. Additional documents will be released on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.

One document details an FBI interview with a drone pilot who in September 2023 reported seeing a linear object with a light bright enough to see bands within the light.

The object was visible for five to ten seconds before the light went out and it vanished. A separate FBI photo includes a graphic overlay of an eyewitness description of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.

Six of the photos show objects observed by NASA astronauts during the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions from the lunar surface.

One NASA photograph from Apollo 17 depicts three dots in a triangular formation. The Pentagon caption states there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly but a new preliminary analysis indicated it could be a physical object. Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt reported seeing a flash on the lunar surface north of Grimaldi crater.

The roughly two dozen videos capture reported sightings around the world between 2020 and 2026. One video taken in Greece in 2023 was accompanied by a report that the object was making multiple 90-degree turns at approximately 80 miles per hour.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in 2024 shows a football-shaped body near Japan. The release includes the FBI's case file 62-HQ-83894, spanning 18 documents from 1947 to 1968 that detail reports of unidentified objects and flying discs. The Pentagon said the FBI has previously released portions of this file but Friday's version includes fewer redactions and several newly declassified pages.

One memo in the file reports that a major in the Air Force called the Dallas field office to say an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by cable, which balloon was approximately twenty feet in diameter.

U.S. Who observed an orb similar to the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings except without the pupil or maybe an orange Storm Electrify bowling ball. Agents saw orange orbs in the sky that emitted smaller red orbs in groups of two to four over a two-day period. These events were witnessed by multiple teams from varying locations and vantage points.

The Pentagon has tracked reports of UAPs for decades. Congress ordered the Pentagon to begin releasing decades of files on UFO sightings in 2022 and created an office that year to declassify UAP material. The AARO website was established in 2023.

U.S. government has recovered alien technology. President Trump has said he is not sure whether or not aliens exist.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who sent a March letter demanding 46 UAP videos identified by whistleblowers, said on social media Friday that those videos are expected to be released in a later Pentagon release. Rep.

Tim Burchett thanked Trump for keeping his word on transparency and disclosure, adding that transparency won’t all happen at once, it will take some time. The effort is led by the White House, the director of national intelligence, the Energy Department, NASA, the FBI and the Pentagon.

The Pentagon said the materials released detail unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena, and welcomed analysis from the private sector.